Great band! I like Blues too, though not that big of a fan. Heh, full-time music isn't really something wise these days especially in a country so small. The best audio engineers are always settling down overseas, not to mention there're only one or two good professional mastering studios here. Well, that's another topic. Over the years, though, Linux and GNU have progressed a good deal to now be "equivalent" to commercial Mac/Windows platforms, rather than just "alternative". There are distributions like 64Studio that aren't bad - which brings me to Jean's question.
Pre-packaged (DAW) distributions are a nice idea, but not exactly my cup of tea. I've had too many crashes during the most critical of times. I once accepted an offer to take over a live session for a friend since his studio computers were under repair, and things didn't go as expected. Since Ardour handles big tasks pretty well, I didn't think too much and gave him my assurance. I was using Sabayon at that time, but installed SUSE-based JackLab Audio Distribution (JAD) alongside just because I thought it would be "better". Everything was rosy until less than halfway through the session JACK gave up, quit (as if killall -9 was issued), and Ardour put up that dreadful "SORRY TOO SLOW DIE ALREADY LAH" message. Luckily at that very point the music had a new riff, so I cut the defective part, saved the session, rebooted into Sabayon and continued from there without issues. That's actually part and parcel of having a system where everything's been done for you. You can pretty much rest easy until you don't know what's wrong because you didn't decide what goes in. Since my primary goal is to set up Linux for a studio environment, I've to make sure every kind of scenario does _not_ end up with a crash or glitch somewhere. That's why only a meta-distribution fits my requirements..and bills. I do, however, have a LiveCD of 64Studio for emergency cases. The packages in it are old, but it's the most stable of the lot according to personal experience and feedback from others. On 10/04/2008, Louis Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Ray, > > > > I didn't really read every line, but your orientation towards music and > the fact that you're pursuing the use of Linux as DAW really caught me. So > I'm saying Hi back to you. > > > > Though not a full time musician, I'm a blues music enthusiast and have my > own band "Chicken Shack Revival", you can hear some of our rehearsals at > http://www.soundclick.com/chickenshackrevival > > > > Great to know that there is someone pursuing Linux DAW too. I've been > trying out Ubuntu for a while and find it to be quite user friendly to > install. Yet pretty enough that my wife take a second look at it :). Mainly > wanting to use it as a replacement for windows to do multitrack > composition. But these days don't have much time for it. Hope to someday > setup a full linux studio that really kicks ass! > > > > Anyways great to know someone in SG who has similar interest as me. The > rest of you DAWers should own up too. Maybe can get together some time. > > Louis > "Chicken Shack Revival" > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Ray Rashif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: LUGS <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 16:43:08 > Subject: [Slugnet] Introduction: Ray > > Hi > > I thought I'd type up a little (but long) "hi-hello" since barging in on > discussions all of a sudden may be sending the wrong signal (read: rude). > I'm not good with such things anyway - in both virtual _and_ physical > reality. We'll all get to know each other better through time and events > (I'll try my best to attend them), so I'll keep this Linux- and > OSS-oriented. > > I never knew SLUG was this active, or even _active_. I'd always believed > there was close to 0 activity in Singapore with regards to Linux, though I > knew there'd be commercial and corporate entities backing up these software > to some extent. My participation was - and still is - as far as the > HardwareZone, VR-Zone and www.sglnx.com forums. I conclude that most local > enthusiasts are born out of work or graduate studies where Linux is used > fairly a lot. I for one, got into it due to interest, solely (you may call > it passion). Not exactly "new" to Open Source, I _am_ to the local scene > since I've yet to attend any sort of meetup. It hasn't been that long either > since I first mounted an "ext3", I would say, almost 2 years according to > http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showpost.php?p=19072341&postcount=64(pardon > the entire content of the post; it's foolish) and here's something > to laugh at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202626 > > Basically, I was and am an average teenager with strange interests; > computers, among others. I really (honestly) don't know why I thought of > Linux but most of it was due to a machine which failed to abide by my rules, > as far as I can remember. Initially found Ubuntu via Wikipedia's list (or > was it just an article?) of "free as in free beer" GNU/Linux > distributions, and from the LiveCD experiences I ultimately decided on > installing Kubuntu. > To this day, I still am of the camp which says Ubuntu (GNOME) is - in > cosmetic ways - archaic. Anyhow, after a few trial sessions of both the > distributions I planned to submit to Fedora. I was, yet again, unimpressed. > Eventually, I ended up back with Ubuntu for some reason. It remained that > way for a while until I met Sabayon Linux, from which I had come to > appreciate Gentoo for being what it is. Along the way I managed to "try" > Freespire, Dreamlinux and eLive. I'm a big fan of the latter for being > extremely good with old hardware, so I've religiously followed each and > every release while donating to download the images. In short - I love Qt, > KDE, Enlightenment, Xmonad, Nano and Kwrite. > > Early 2007, I deployed a Gentoo system in hopes of transforming it into a > Digital Audio Workstation. I'm not a prominent musician, nor am I that > well-versed in any instrument. I had a few gigs, shamelessly appeared on the > papers a number of times, and worked at Yamaha for a while but that's about > it. Primarily a hobbyist without much dough, I just wanted a value-for-money > DAW with which I could produce amateur music. Unfortunately, I never did get > it right. Stability is key for any such platform, and my "ricer" > characteristics slowly took over. From wanting a DAW, it seemed like I > changed my mind into wanting something which "doesn't work". I don't know > much coding besides scripting in Bash, though I'm in the process of falling > in love with Python. I hope to get comfortable with Qt design, Perl and C++ > programming soon. Strangely, I find no interest in Java or Ruby. > > This is where I end my story, with Arch Linux. Indirectly introduced to by > a person going by the alias "Balto" in various forums, I'm greatly thankful > that my journey was completed with a huge wall in front bearing the message, > "This is Arch Linux - where YOU stop." Stability meets power, enough said. > As you can probably guess by now, I haven't used that many distributions. In > fact, I wouldn't be joking if I said there were less than 5. Whatever it is, > I'm not going any further. Arch Linux is where I am, and hopefully will be, > until something unexpected occurs. So yes, I'm now back to getting a working > DAW up and it's looking good (you can find me preaching about Linux in > www.soft.com.sg forum). When the time comes, you will all have a listen ;) > > > Like I mentioned, I'm a hobbyist. Professionally, I do freelance computer > repair/administration, traditional (macabre) > art, and audio production in the form of sequencing drum tracks and software > synthesising - nothing fancy or worthy of mention. I love to write too, even > have some leftover copies of novels which I intended to complete when I was > much younger. None of them even reach chapter 1. I wonder, though, why I've > yet to put up a blog. Maybe I just don't like the act of blogging or find it > pointless. I have a few online aliases, namely "schivmeister", "maxhurt", > "aeto" and "gutturalpiss" - all of them portraying different personalities > to distort perception. Oh my, whom am I kidding with? > > P.S: You know, you didn't have to read every line of this. > > Regards > Ray Rashif > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com >
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